About this Role

“We are seeking a data engineer to help grow the figment data team.

The candidate should have a track record of delivering solutions in a collaborative team setting and have several years of demonstrated work experience designing, implementing and maintaining data solutions to support both internal and external use cases.

This is a full-time remote position, for candidates in North American time zones (+1/-1). If you enjoy complex data problems, building data platform solutions, and providing real business impact, then this role may be a good fit for you. Ideal candidates are comfortable working in an unstructured environment, dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity, minimal direction, and working across a range of projects.”

What you will be doing

• Lead a team of data engineers through the full project life cycle: design, implementation, testing, production, enhancing, & maintaining.
• Work with business units to coordinate defining requirements for the data team and project roadmap.
• Provide hands-on guidance, leadership, mentorship and promote the career development of team members.
• Lead regular retrospectives and planning sessions.
• Provide input for the organization's data engineering goals.
• Assess the effectiveness of the overall data platform and technology stack to balance performance with cost and engineering productivity.
• Take part in the data engineering interview process

What you will bring to the team

Examples:

• Significant experience in data and/or software engineering along with project + people management.
• Familiar with modern cloud data platforms and how to build, operate, maintain, and enhance them.
• Results-oriented individual with a high EQ and attention to detail.
• A management style that empowers and helps the team grow in their career goals
• A collaborative approach to sharing ideas and finding solutions

What you could bring to the team (optional)

Examples:

• Experience with:
  • Our stack (AWS, Snowflake, Dagster, dbt, Fivetran, Monte Carlo)
  • Our tools (Terraform, GitHub, Jira, Slack, PageDuty)